OBITUARY
Venetta Mary Lunn
October 23, 1917 – August 3, 2018
Vinetta Mary Lunn (nee Burke)
Oct. 23, 1917-Aug. 3, 2018
At 100 years in Montreal. Predeceased by her husband Hugh Lunn in 2011. She leaves her children Bridget, Anthony and Sarah, grandchildren Naomi, Isabelle, Anne-Mathilde, Catherine and Sebastian, and 4 great-grandchildren. Also her niece Roberta Young of Barrie and many Lunn nieces and nephews.
Vinetta was born in Toronto to Anne Purtle (born of Irish parents from Galway and Cashel) and Gerald Burke (born in Joggins NS of Acadian parents). She attended Loretto College and St. Michael’s College (U of T) graduating with a BA in 1938. During the war she worked in Ottawa and Vancouver on government war effort jobs, then joined the Navy as a WREN. Posts included Halifax and Cornwallis NS and England where she worked in London until the end of the war and where her future husband was in the RCAF. All her life, she kept in touch with her many friends in the Navy. After the war Vinetta and Hugh married in Vancouver, had three children and moved frequently back and forth from Canada to Europe, including Vancouver, Montreal, Chicoutimi, Isle of Wight (England), Guernsey, Brussels and Zweibrucken (Germany). Settling in Ottawa in 1965, Vinetta worked at the public library and the National Gallery library. The last move was to Vancouver in the 70s where Vinetta worked at the UBC psychiatry library and where they lived on the waterfront for over 35 years in False Creek, Vancouver.
In retirement she and Hugh loved to travel through North America and Europe, play tennis every day and read. Vinetta especially loved hosting her grandchildren in Vancouver every summer.
There will be a funeral mass at St. Irenaeus Church (3030 Delisle, Montreal) on Sat. Aug. 11 at 9 a.m. followed by a reception.
Online condolences may be sent to dignitequebec.com
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Our most sincere sympathies to the family and friends of Venetta Mary Lunn 2018.source
Death notice for the town of: montreal, Province: Quebec